In an energetic tone and with multiple knocks on the table, President Luis Abinader said in his government he will not allow a rank above the law in the Dominican Republic.
Abinader was referring to the charge of assault by an agent of police, accusing Perreme’s deputy Sadoky Duarte.
The president believes it will come true and what is appropriate is what the police corporal did, who takes the deputy to court “and he sees it right.” He said the party has not only been suspended but will also be expelled, as José Ignacio Paliza, president of the organization, announced yesterday.
“There is no rank that can be above the law in this government, we will not allow that”, the first president emphasized this morning.
Asked about the death of Air Force Pilot Colonel, Ramón Israel Rodríguez Cruz, from the hands of a police patrol in Mao, Valverde, the president said he respects the institutions and that justice is investigating.
“That’s the society we aspire to, it’s not what I think, it’s what decides justice,” he said.
The president answered questions from journalists at the National Palace where announced the admission of all police officers to the National Health Service (Senasa) Premium Service, with 18,000 pesos in annual medication and coverage for expensive illnesses of one million 500,000 pesos per year.
Also announced that from 1 January a salary increase for police officers will be implemented from 20 to 40%.
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The Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) sent that political group’s National Prosecutor the charge against Deputy Sadoky Duarte, who allegedly assaulted an agent of the National Police.
Through its account on the social network Twitter, the PRM published a statement in which it stated that it had received information about the signal from the deputy of the National Police.
“We have received information that there is a report from the National Police to Deputy Sadoky Duarte, a member of our block of deputies for assaulting a police officer. We have ordered this case to be sent to the party’s national prosecutor for the purposes of the place, ”the statement said.
In addition, they pointed out that “every member of this organization who violates the rules of public policy must be personally accountable for his actions”.
On this charge, the president of the PRM and the administrative minister of the presidency, José Ignacio Paliza, indicated that he will request the deportation of Sadoky Duarte of the party.
Paliza is also president of the PRM.